Meltzer’s bid to save Siegel’s house
Novelist Brad Meltzer has a new book out -- Book of Lies -- which uses the murder of Jerry Siegel's father when...
McCloud announces Google Chrome
Not content with becoming a verb, noun and ultra-profitable media conglomerate, Google is about to launch a browser, and it will be called Chrome....
Once more into the breach, dear pals!
Bully rounds up the greatest ads of all time.
The Beat is showing her age, but it is fair to say that nothing entranced this...
Ah, Dragon-Con
We received some photos -- retrieved at great peril -- of our pal Bob Burden at Dragon-Con.
Our roving reporter spotted Bob Burden right after...
Even more on Anne Cleveland
Shaenon Garrity takes a look at the history of her fellow Vassar alum Anne Cleveland:
So who was Anne Cleveland? Hardly anyone remembers. In addition...
And there was great rejoicing…Ogden Whitney collection
Methinks this news has been out there before, but Dan Nadel makes it official: PictureBox is doing Ogden Whitney:
PictureBox is going to publish a...
Shop at Ralphs for the Hero Initiative
As The Beat wanders each week through a cramped Gristedes, pushing a tiny, child- or midget-sized cart through narrow, stacked-up aisles, hoping against hope...
Lynd Ward’s Frankenstein
One of the legendary achievements in fantastic illustration, Lynd Ward’s Frankenstein, incredibly, out of print, but archived on the web by Nick Mullins.
Madge the Magician’s Daughter
Everyone else has been linking to the 1907 comic strip Madge the Magician's Daughter by W.O. Wilson -- why shouldn't The Beat?
While enjoying this...
Rugg/Maruca fashion
Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca have contributed a "A Graphic Novel of the Season's New Looks" for New York magazine. Personally, we're a little...
Facebook…WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!!
I woke up the other day to read this on my Facebook home page:
is now single. Comment
Well, should I comment in public...
